Today the defense team for Mikhail Khodorkovsky is running a letter, bearing the signature of Robert Amsterdam, in the global edition of the Financial Times. The story has been covered by Dow Jones and some other news outlets. Below is...
The Energy Ministry is investigating ways of reducing taxes on undeveloped gas fields, having seen that even with high oil prices most projects would not be financially solvent. Ukraine’s energy company Naftogaz has said that to avoid ...
Medvedev has established five key areas in the drive to modernize Russia’s economy. The President has met with IT specialists at the Kaspersky Lab and announced his intention to make the field of computer technology ‘one of the m...
TODAY: Positive feeling in run-up to Obama meeting; Russia says only US President respects Red Army contribution in WWII; WTO motives analyzed; oligarchs in the spotlight; Hermitage museum arrives in Amsterdam US-Russian negotiations on the START ...
The New York Times editorial board has stepped forth on Russia’s veto of the U.N. resolution extending UNOMIG’s presence in Abkhazia in an opinion entitled “Small Minds in the Kremlin”. I’m going to do my best here to...
The jury apparently is in for now – a Treasury Department official says that the $134.5 billion of treasury bonds recently seized at the Swiss-Italian border are fakes. As much as I wish there was something more to this story, sadly, there i...
Robert Amsterdam is currently in Brazil, where he met yesterday with Senator and ex-President José Sarney, to discuss the plight of political prisoners in Venezuela, and in particular the case of Eligio Cedeño, a Venezuelan banker who has been lan...
Here’s another piece on Russia’s decision to give up on negotiations to join the World Trade Organization. The Economist says that not only has Russia ‘removed an easy concession that [Barack Obama] might have offered’...
As if Gazprom – for better or for worse – weren’t already enough of a national Russian treasure, Ria Novosti reports this week on what must be the most bizarre business move of the century. Lawmakers of Russia’s southern Si...
Dmitry Medvedev’s ambitious claiming of Russia as ‘the epicenter of world politics‘ during this week’s BRIC summit isn’t carrying much weight in the Western press, with many observers disparaging Russia’s role i...
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